Article: 'The Los Angeles Times recently did a story detailing all of the NHTSA reports of Toyota "sudden acceleration" fatalities...' And yes, the spreadsheet data is from the LAT story.

And no, to poke holes in the author's idiot argument, I don't have to figure anything out about the "percentage of Prius drivers, blah blah blah." I would have to do that if I wanted to find the real numbers. Instead, I just demolished the author's prima facie case. Once that goes down there is no reason to invest more time on it. He can make the case again with better data if he feels like it. I'm not about to throw any more mental effort after an idiot's idea.

Oh...did your feelings get hurt? That makes me feel so rotten about myself! I was inconsiderate. Maybe I brought up unpleasant memories of your childhood? You can talk about it. Nobody here will make fun.

Hey, you sure got me. Really stuck it to me..oh shit, no you didn't, you just can't read. From the article: 'The Los Angeles Times recently did a story detailing all of the NHTSA reports of Toyota "sudden acceleration" fatalities, and, though the Times did not mention it, the ages of the drivers involved were striking.'

According the original article, DEP (enabled by default in IE8) and sandbox mode (Windows 7, Vista) all stop this zero day.

If that is the case, doesn't that in IE's favor, nor against? All browsers have vulnerabilities. All of them have zero-days. However, it seems that IE has some pretty good built-in protections that Firefox lacks.

Henry V.009 writes: Rebecca Christie was convicted of a 2006 murder, today. The New Mexico mother let her 3-year-old toddler starve to death while she played World of Warcraft. According to one article (sorry, you'll have to click on the ad to view), "the house was filled with cat feces, moldy food and unwashed dishes when the child was taken to an Alamogordo hospital emergency room with severe dehydration." More here, including comments by Rebecca's fellow WoW players.

Murakami is aces at making you feel good about your literary hoity-toityness. But I, for one, have better things to think about than the opium dreams of some oversexed wit-lit writer. There are no real ideas or insights there. It's fluff.